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    Edward Hopper Gas 1940 • 4D Chess: Trump Postpones Destroying Iran’s Power Plants (Pinsker) • IEA Head Warns Iran War Sparked Energy Crisis Worse Than
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 24 2026]

    #235978
    Michael Reid
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    #235979
    Topcat
    Participant

    Echos of Gallipoli: Hormuz and the Geography of Hubris

    “History is not a teacher, it teaches nothing. History is a warden, and it punishes for poorly learned historical lessons”
    – Vladimir Putin.

    In a naval choke-point, always bet on the shore over the ship

    “Gallipoli was born of overconfidence.

    The Allied powers, boasting superior naval technology and industrial might, assumed the Ottoman Empire would crumble under a naval bombardment followed by an amphibious landing.

    They were wrong.

    The geography of the Dardanelles turned the Allied advantage into a liability. The narrow strait allowed a numerically inferior force to concentrate fire, mine the waters, and utilize the high ground to devastating effect.

    The result was a bloody stalemate, massive casualties, and a humiliating withdrawal.”

    #235980
    Topcat
    Participant

    #235981
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Everyone remember Austin Fitts’ “Red Button” theory? She asked (Boomers) at one of these investing conferences – like a Christian, progressive one – that “If you had a red button, we could fix all the problems, corruption, wars, etc, but it wipes out your portfolio, who would push it?”

    No hands. Not one would fix the world if it cost them the slightest personal loss.

    Well I am NOT one of those sorts.

    Iran is that Red Button that re-sets the system, and a guy was found who would push it. He pushed it and here we are. Does that make it easier to understand?

    Everyone wants the system to change because it’s corrupt, but any time you actually change it they say “No! It’ll be different then! I might lose something!” And “The System” knows this: that’s its immune system.

    Example: DOGE. We found a TRILLION dollars in fraud in 6 hours. Congress and everyone said, “Don’t cut it.” They will die on this hill. Not a dollar. Walz found $9 Billion without even looking. No! We keep the fraud!

    This is why it can’t be reformed. That’s WHY they did DOGE: to prove this point. (And also get the records). So when you ask “Why didn’t you use Congress?” you can point at DOGE and Thune and have no argument. We tried.

    We tried all the reforms, publicized in headlines all the things, you said no. Every day for 20 more years things got worse. Because it’s a big s—t sandwich. Not one of you would push the button because you’d have to take even a single bite. A nibble. No. No bites at all. Markets and houses only every go up and never down to their fair price, I don’t care how many of my kids get killed.

    Doesn’t matter that everything on the other side is $9B better. I won’t take that bite TODAY. For 90 seconds.

    Okay well someone hit the button. Can you understand why?

    Now he can also “Have an accident” and get in a plane crash on Ken Lay island. Kent can run with Vance and Tulsi on an anti-war ticket. Because they only have to reduce fraud 10% in Georgia and Minnesota to win. But that button was pushed.

    By Bad Orange Daddy Man. You wouldn’t push it. Let the country, the whole world, all the world’s children collapse because no one would do it. It would be “mean”. We wouldn’t want “mean” that stops people, arrests foreign child-rapists n’ stuff. Gas prices might go up for three months. No. That’s EXACTLY what you’re saying right now!

    Here you go. Somebody was MEAN. Bad Daddy and spanked.

    You want the system changed without having it change. That can’t happen. And it’s fraud all the way down. That can’t happen. A Wall Street with no fraud would be 90% smaller.

    And that change is the WHOLE WORLD or the untouched place in Babylon will just regroup and recolonize from there. That change has to be very big. Okay then, here we go. You’re welcome. The talk isn’t to Iran, that “this is your chance”: it’s to all of us. When the system rocks, YOU get to replace it with whatever you like better. In France or NY. You can’t replace it unless someone rocks it: we already tried that. We tried all the things for years.* Here we are.

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    *Clearly since at least Ayn Rand, 1945.

    #235982
    Topcat
    Participant

    “Can you say……..”

    ma-fi-o-cra-cy

    Noun
    mafiocracy (plural mafiocracies)

    no. 1 Government by mafiosi; (loosely) government by organized crime.
    no. 2 An instance of such government; a government that is run by mafiosi or similar crime lords.

    The Satanic Epstein Class

    A Transnational Mafiocracy is a globalized, borderless criminal network where organized crime groups infiltrate state structures, corrupt government officials, and directly influence public policy to protect illicit operations

    These networks engage in trafficking, money laundering, and violence, often operating as a “New Authoritarianism” that undermines democracy and the rule of law.

    Key Characteristics and Impacts:

    Government Infiltration: Criminal entities, such as the Mafia, move beyond simple bribery into the absorption of state apparatuses to create safe havens.

    Economic Dominance: These networks represent a “globalized illegal economy,” using modern technology and cryptocurrencies to move funds and goods, often resulting in massive financial losses, such as an estimated $90 billion yearly in Africa.

    Technological Shift: The rise of AI encrypted communications, the dark web, and digital financial systems enables criminals to act with relative impunity.

    International Reach: Criminal activities, including human trafficking, narcotics, and arms smuggling, require coordinated worldwide law enforcement cooperation.

    #235983
    Topcat
    Participant

    It’s a very small club Loser, and You-Are-Not-In-It

    #235984
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Day 11, no page number. But I expect Trump will be in an AI picture helping Ming the Merciless and the Witch King.

    Gold moves $400, Silver $10. No comments, no notice, nothing breaks. Like the Greek Bond default, losing the bet and not paying is not a Default if we say so.

    “Controversial call helps Tennessee beat Virginia, reach Sweet 16. Did refs get it right? Replays seemed to show the officials got the call wrong, but didn’t change it and it helped send Virginia home and Tennessee to the Sweet 16. USA TODAY

    So AFTER it was admitted all games are rigged and not real ESPECIALLY in basketball, now that never happened and we think the Ref calls are real? What am I saying? That’s just a game. MF Global, AMC/Wall St Apes, and the commodities market (nickel, all of them) proved they’re rigging everything. Everyone just stays in the casino, fully invested. Nothing can stop them, they’re not even mad. Nvidia is a trillion cap on check-kited revenue, no one calls them. [Shrug] I’ve given up. They like being cheated, so what can I do?

    Day after day. Anything digitized means “No reality, ever.” So what if there’s no gas and fertilizer? Will that get your attention? We tried the other plans. Whoever stops this, clearly out the casino will be the bad guy. The system only stops when the problem can’t be fixed with money.

    “Trump Blinked” Yup. TACO. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fbq5lTdydSY Bombing things with B52s until you run out of targets is called “Blinking” and “Chickening out”. The only way to NOT Lose and Chicken out” is to bomb daily, every day for 80 years. Right?

    Logic: if you can’t leave because leaving is bad, you have to STAY. Am I right? Personally I would NOT say that leaving is bad. I would let him leave. But the anti-war people are demanding Trump stay, so there you have it! He stays I guess. Thanks guys. Your pointy hats are in the corner.

    Might that be because “something else is going on”?

    “Iran Says Talks With US Are ‘Fake News’ After Trump Threatens To ‘Just Keep Bombing’, Wants Hormuz To Be ‘Jointly Controlled’

    Okay, so NO ONE in Iran. Not a man, woman or child. No journalist, no businessman, no one. Not one single traitor, not even one back-channel operator. No one. Alright man, first time in the history of the universe, but you go with that.

    Now not IRGC/Civilian, maybe. Maybe they’ve merged. Maybe he’s not talking to either of THEM maybe. But NO ONE? Not one. No one Russia suggested, no one China suggested, not the Pope, not the Patriarch, no one?

    During a war?

    Are you making assumptions that are irrational?

    These transparent lies are on all day.

    Every single one you could be 10 years old and born on earth and know aren’t true.

    “Israel, US Strike Gas Facilities In Iran’s Isfahan, Possibly Triggering Retaliation Against Gulf
    Testing some red-lines, potential for runaway escalation…

    Like this. Unless Iran has nukes, or wants to invade Iraq, there is no “Escalation”, they’re already at “11”. What. The. Literal.

    This was same “I guess words have no meanings” “Iran has escalation dominance.” That E.D. means the have a variety of choices at their disposal: talking, handguns, jeeps, jets, as the go UP in size That matters. You know when it totally, entirely, completely doesn’t matter? A: When you’re a “11”. Which the U.S. did 1st hour of first day. (Probably for this reason.) Then the only thing matters is if you have more missile factories than the country you’re fighting.

    Here ZH is being as retarded as Trump saying “You better not do anything or we’ll bomb you.” …Compared to WHAT? There’s only ONE Quatari gas hub to Europe and ONE Dimona you dopes.

    “Oil Jumps After Explosion And Massive Fire At One Of The Largest US Oil Refineries

    Finally Iran MIGHT be doing something to us. Maybe they figured out how to use “Maps” so they could find us, like the other day.

    “Israel’s Mossad Promised It Could Ignite Regime Change In Iran: Report
    Trump was hoping to trigger a quick uprising, NYT says…

    If course they did. Israel has said that since 1967. They make up everything. So they’re a perfect match for the NYT, who also makes up everything. So there being NO uprisings, 3 times they tried, last one being a few days before… Oh and he thought it would be quick which is why he pre-planned Russia having extra oil and a complex system of taking Lloyd’s shipping business that could only happen the the Straits were “closed” for some time.

    Every “expert” used their DonaldTelepathy to not ask and say the same thing. “Israel Said” and Donald believes and obeys anyone who talks to him; He’s well-known for this. Then they attribute something he never said and probably never thought as a failure. Well I just stopped you from moving to Thailand and taking up a career as a dancing girl. What? You never meant to fly to Thailand and wear a dress? I say you’re a liar and I’m the one who stopped you. You’re a failure! Your plan FAILED. See how that works?

    They attribute things that were never said and almost certainly are not in any Pentagon war plans you can probably find online and read. Go read them for me.

    “Russia-Linked Arms Trafficker, Corrupt African Officials Tried To Supply Mexican Cartel With Surface-To-Air Missiles

    We shouldn’t be mean and arrest cartel members with ICE though. Someone might get hurt.

    Also headlines on ICE in TSA lines “Is anyone in America safe when police are around? Someone might get killed.” Okay, let’s just pass that you’re retarded with that statement. That’s the #Opposite of why every policeman every was hired by every city for the last 200 years. I take you up on it! We really MUST limit the size of government everywhere, Blue Man! Let’s cut the government size and scope by 90% Mr. Democrat!

    I mean, if you think government is dangerous, that’s a no-brainer! I can’t believe after all this time we’re on the same page. You’re totally, totally right. Let’s slash government 90% and do all the services privately ourselves.

    Colombian Air Force C-130 Cargo Plane Carrying 110 Soldiers Crashes: Report

    That’s it then! We can’t fight cartels anymore. Somebody got hurt.

    “FBI Misled Court To Spy On Second Trump Campaign Adviser

    That is a crime, a felony. Crimes are things we prosecute, and if Federal officers and agents of courts are even ACCUSED, and “show the appearance of” they can be fired and de-barred. It was just done in 2020 and before, NY de-barring all kinds of attorneys who “represent clients” and “File paperwork” (if they were Republican). While Pro bono people who throw bombs and light cars on fire.

    “Supreme Court Seems Skeptical Of State Law Allowing Late-Arriving Ballots

    This is just a movie we make now, the Scope Monkey Trial. If the Ballots don’t arrive in 7 days, then maybe 7 plus one hour? Maybe one day? Maybe an extra month? Why not a year? Three years? No. This is why we have “Rules”. We can’t keep counting ballots until June when you find enough, then stop. So if it’s a “Day after” why not “The day of”? There’s no difference. I can’t believe we discuss this, but same court that has no idea what a “Woman” or a “Person” is.

    Following comments yesterday several people are repeating “Trump blinked” impressions. So if Trump advances he’s bad, but if he withdraws he’s bad? His war is bad and his peace is bad?

    Guess we can’t have peace then. You just decided.

    Be careful. So we’re marching to Berlin, needed a 2 week pause to let supplies catch up, that means “Montgomery Blinked”, the war is over. Ike decided NOT to blow that dam on the border with Germany, so that means “He’s weak” a coward and the allies are losing.

    This is the translation of what you’re saying. So you WANT him to blow the energy infrastructure, then? Only that will satisfy you?

    This is why I keep going on about HATE. You say it so you can HATE. Hate, my friends, is “Irrational”. Here you go: it’s irrational, you want to HATE so you’re demanding Trump bomb Iran’s energy and water infrastructure. I for one do NOT do that. I’m actually pretty happy if he doesn’t, thanks. I don’t think he’s winning or losing depending if he hits one target or another, a fact which changes daily in all wars. “They went through the Black forest and not Belgium, that means they lost the war!” No. “We used regular bombs not fire bombs, that means we’ve lost to Germany.” No.

    Christ, man. “All things that happen are bad” is not a provable theory. It’s a religion.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlxfABNYJxk (Pro-America air commentary)

    No warranties. Just need ANYTHING but Black Pill stuff. If 100% of your data diet points one way: stop. Go ask the other side. And that other side can not be AI. Can’t belive you make me post pro-America military stuff, please stop. It’s worse than making me quote Ayn Rand.

    Example: Clip on Iran hitting Israel weapons company, so good work on their part. We only hear things Iran hits, nothing hit in Iran. This leaves the impression Iran is untouched, which I assure you is not the case.

    This is exactly what we all protested in Iraq, right? The U.S. was hitting everything successfully, it was all going great? Now we’re doing the same thing, but on the side of Iran, as if we’re Persians. Why? Wouldn’t it be better to have an ACCURATE sense of Iran, same as Iraq?

    Example yesterday? “Iran-backed militias force US out of Baghdad base.” …So you mean “Iraqis.” That word means “Iraqis made US leave IRAQ”. As well they should! and have been trying for years, so good on them!. Yay. And Iran has almost nothing to do with it, the IRGC has NOT invaded Iraq, and is NOT surrounding the base.

    So why did you use the word “Iran” there and not the correct word, “Iraq”? Should we have used the word “Bolivian” which is just as accurate? They’re making things up every minute of every hour. Media, news, can’t even tell countries apart in their fever dream of HATE. Although this would seem to be a win, they can’t take the win and “Just make up every lie they can think of” about it in service of Lies and Hate.

    I can’t conscious such people, because also, I can’t tell what’s going on when you do that. If you lie that much, about everything, I begin to wonder if Trump’s actions are correct just because you say the Opposite. Don’t force me into that position, as I’ve said since 2016. WHYYYYY do you make me “defend” him? If you TOLD THE TRUTH EVER, I wouldn’t have to. We’d be discussing his ACTUAL crimes.

    Speaking of, the LEVEL of lies, it appears Iran did NOT shoot anything to Diego? Whut? When widely reported? Huh? So Iran does NOT have power. Okay, BOTH will be true: 1) Iran is not belligerent and doesn’t shoot distant nations, okay, good. 2) They are also not powerful and are shooting only local missiles. Everyone wants to grab one of these and deny the other, but if one is true, the other one is too.

    Same time: Reports out that the Girl’s School wasn’t targeted by anybody. A large Iranian missile misfired and landed there. It’s just as likely as the opposite, stay tuned. But this is why I don’t jump at such things just to service HATE of Satan himself, who is not my Lord and father. Everyone will of course lie, and if it turns out to be the case, then ALL the – Suddenly AntiWar!!! — NeoCons will have a lot of explaining to do (Ritter) that they claimed specific inside information that it WAS on the targeting list, having not been removed from 12 years ago when it was a ‘base’ and legitimate target. They knew that immediately and spread it widely, despite being an a war zone no one can visit. Why? To HATE. To hate the United States and everyone in it. To destroy the U.S. Military. Okay, soooo….Patriots do that now? That’s what “Patriot” means? We restore the constitution and law using hate that dismantles? Strange strategy, go ahead and explain it further.

    “Pepe Escobar: Iran’s plan of attrition”

    Yes, almost certainly the case. And it’s a good plan! Here’s the problem: the U.S. is NOT fighting a war of attrition. We just fought an American war, throwing everything at them fast as we can, and just taking everything they fire back in return right in the face. That’s not a “War of attrition” like WWI or Vietnam. Iran’s plan would work perfectly if you had Bush or Obama in, who will hog-tie the military and tell them not to shoot until 20 lawyers have signed off.

    Now it remains to be seen what will happen next: IF the U.S. wants to “Occupy” and 100 other things we’ve never said we intended, then sure, it can still end up there. But I don’t see the special reason to behave that way because it’s stupid. I’m not going to get up and just be stupid for Iran’s benefit. I’m not Clinton, Bush, or Obama. They WANTED those wars to linger and the U.S. to be chewed up and tied down, so they made sure that happened. WHY, you may ask, but go look for yourself.

    There’s no special reason to presume a state of attrition. HOW would that even happen? Iran would need to be functional and assemble very-large weapons years from now to do that, with refineries, factories, stockpiles, etc. If we can B-52 anything within at will, there’s no “Attrition” because they can’t fight with anything larger than a mortar. See the problem?

    The U.S. will collapse back home from the effort? Errr…don’t think so. Not the slightest chance at all. So they have to depend on PR ALONE, and a collapse in POLITICAL will, so the U.S. voluntarily goes home. And fine, that’s a plan! …But it’s not Attrition. We haven’t been “Attritted” at all. Nada. Pepe can explain to me how many jet and missile factories of ours Iran has destroyed now. A: Zero. We could make missiles for the next 500 years and drop them on Iran at this rate. I’m not saying we should do that and have no statements on the morality of it, but Do you see the Problem?

    We’ve taken essentially NO losses. We probably lost 10,000 men under Obama’s tranny plan in the military, and only 1,000 men in an actual hot war. We lost what are we, 6 jets? 8? Iran has lost ALL. PLUS all their Navy.

    C’mon men, these things matter or there’s no such thing as war. There’s no “Attrition” at all. Only PR.

    This is IDENTICAL to when “Russia lost” against Ukraine. Same fever excitement Russia could only lose against a nation 1/10th their size, but now you’re taking the position Ukraine can only Win, and already has. No. Tell me when they’re in Moscow and Iran is in Baltimore.

    “Iron Dome falls” – Haiphong.

    Yes, Danny, we knew that in the 12 Day War. Extremely well proven a year ago. Welcome to the party were “Reality exists” and things that happened stay happened and don’t reverse every day. Why am I hard on him? Because that means his headline is a lie. Stop lying. “President SHOT!!!” (President McKinley). See how “Time exists” matters a little? And how “Words have meanings”?

    Yes, Israel has been exposed when they ran out in the 12 day, a year ago. They KNEW this and blackmailed the U.S. to attack ANYWAY. Wow, so sad for them! Buckets of tears as they had I dunno, 12 years of political wrangling to remove their crazies like Nutso but supported him and the genocide in Gaza too much.

    “The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it” –Hal Turner

    Same. The U.S. is “Insovlent” the moment they take out the first bond of the first loan. –So is every BANK by the way, who are “insolvent” 10:1 and far more with the signing of the business license. That’s not what those words mean. That is, it’s a Lie. He’s been around decades, it’s true that whole time, “Time Exists”, he KNOWS it’s a lie.

    You know what else? WE WERE NEVER GOING TO PAY. Ever. They published papers on this in 1971, 1979, and thousands of people have read them. You can too. Governments NEVER pay. Adam Smith said so in 1775. Greece is ALSO insolvent, Germany, UK, the whole EU, All of China, I’m sure. And you see how much that matters. Argentina stopped paying every 10 years for 100 years in a row, made no difference.

    I – being a credible dope – used to say this same thing for 20 years myself before I got a clue. Because my predictions were constantly wrong on this point SO I CHANGED.

    Sooooo??????

    He and we are also not counting any ASSETS. That seems odd. So we can balance the budget merely by reducing known fraud, AND we can put the deficit back to yellow by merely re-valuing gold? That seems relevant. That’s only TWO. We also have more gold mines than South America and have nuked all our businesses. Maybe open them and there’d be revenue, I dunno. That also slashes all SNAP/Unemployment/Decay costs. MOST of the budget is Medicare which costs 5-10x more here than anywhere and is clearly all fraud. So we can actually save 90% and DOUBLE health outcomes. Relevant maybe?

    Nope. It would stop my Black-Pill surrendering. It would stop my HATE. We can only lie down and die before the Globalists, in whatever manner seems best to us. –Denathor.

    #235985
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Unlike the AI photo above, I’m still eating $6 Porterhouse and driving $3 gas. And I’m in a high-cost area!

    But AI drew something. I saw it with my eyes and now it’s true.

    Now this CAN happen. Totally could! That’s why it’s so important not to LIE about it with every click and every waking breath. Please. Stop. Lying. For all our ever-loving sanities.

    #235986
    Topcat
    Participant

    • IEA Head Warns Iran War Sparked Energy Crisis Worse Than 1970s

    • IEA Head Warns Satanic Epstein Class Sparked Energy Crisis Worse Than 1970s

    #235987
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    March 24, 2026, 7:38 AM, local time in the Show Me State. Still breathing and interested in the greatest show (the only show) on Earth, albeit somewhat alarmed by it. So far so good so good so Happy Birthday to Me.

    #235988
    Topcat
    Participant

    Russia can not afford to have the Empire of Lies and Zionaziland controlling Iran in any way which is just a hop skip and jump across the Caspian from Russia’s southern border.

    “Col. Macgregor predicts Putin has already delivered a terrifying ultimatum to Netanyahu: If Israel dares to use a nuclear weapon in the Middle East, Russia will drop a nuclear weapon on Israel.”

    Without the nuclear option Zionaziland is toast.

    It has no AD and Iran will dissect it like a high school biology frog.

    Trumpturd’s Gallipoli Moment is rapidly approaching.

    Liar, Liar Pants on Fire and his Epstein Class Media Whores have peddled the fable that Iran’s missile launchers are almost all gone.

    Even while 3 or 4 WAVES of missiles are launched each day and increasing in volume per day.

    Noooooooo

    #235989
    Topcat
    Participant

    #235990
    Topcat
    Participant

    Supreme Commander Trumptard Orders Strait of Hormuz Suicide Attack

    #235991
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @TopCat

    … will dissect it like a high school biology frog.” [and other posts this morning]

    Man, you are on a roll today! Ya gotta tell me what brand of coffee yer drinking.

    #235992
    Topcat
    Participant

    This is partially as a result of marrying your Brother

    And partially as a result of being a krooked kunt.

    #235993
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Pepe seems aware

    #235994
    Topcat
    Participant

    Zionaziland Lives Rent Free in Trumpturd’s Head

    Ain’t it the Truth

    #235995

    Happy Birthday, DBS!

    #235996

    The following points are made in a comment from “Ponzi unit”, and is a good use of AI. From the markettickerNAD:

    The government publishes its own checkbook. The data shows:

    1. One provider claimed more unique patients than the entire Medicaid program has enrolled.

    2. Two providers billed billions of dollars through one or two clinical employees.

    3. Four providers billed personal care at 9-15x the physical maximum rate, every month, for years.

    4. Thirty small LLCs across twelve states simultaneously entered the same billing market in the same month, with identical billing templates, and deliberately non-overlapping authorized officials designed to defeat standard detection queries.

    5. Eight hundred providers simultaneously stopped billing portable oxygen equipment in a single month — consistent with a mass enforcement event visible in aggregate public data.

    None of this required special access. None of this required insider knowledge. None of this required anything more than two public downloads, a free query engine, and an afternoon.

    The question Tickerguy asks — why isn’t this being done routinely? — is not a technical question. The technical capacity to do this exists and is trivially accessible. The analysis takes an afternoon. The data is free.

    The answer is in the structure of who benefits from it not being done.


    That last line pretty sums up corruption and why it is not stopped. Go to the link for the full comment and its sources.

    #235997
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #235998
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #235999
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #236000
    zerosum
    Participant

    ENERGY WAR:
    Spending money that don’t exist.

    Attack tools: Hate, fear, control, accountability, diversion, LIES, SECRETS, mis-informatiion, propaganda,

    Targets:
    diaspora
    a migrant tsunami
    immigration
    racists
    religion
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    You want the system changed without having it change. That can’t happen. And it’s fraud all the way down. That can’t happen. A Wall Street with no fraud would be 90% smaller.
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    The system only stops when the problem can’t be fixed with money.
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    Governments NEVER pay.
    “The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it” –Hal Turner
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    Russians Launch A Starlink Analog
    Massive Strike On Energy Infrastructure
    MilitarySummary 2026.3.24

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    #236001
    Topcat
    Participant

    #236002
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    19:00
    Petrodollar explained and how this scheme may be unraveling

    #236003
    zerosum
    Participant

    Usraeli broke the 24 hour ceasefire in Iraq. Anyone surprised? Cirnosad predicted this to happen, by the way.

    The truce has broken down in Iraq.

    A few hours after the US evacuation of Victoria Base was completed (which had been covered by the ceasefire), US forces bombed the PMU base in Al-Jarf, in Anbar Governorate. Meanwhile, the Iraqi resistance attacked US positions in Erbil.

    https://x.com/Suriyakmaps/status/2036237917178273844

    #236004
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I may have mentioned that today is the anniversary of my Birthday, and so in keeping with the traditions of the Shire I will be giving all of you a present that none of you were expecting and a few of you readers (very few I fear) will soon discover to be of inestimable value. By that I mean of literally incalculably large personal value to yourself and your loved ones.

    Also, when I said “very few” I did not mean it as any kind of insult or arrogant dismissal of your value, smarts, significance or all around general goodness and worth. I meant it LITERALLY. There are for a fact just very few people who can AND at the same time have the desire, interest and available time to devote to think about something this complicated “all the way through to the end“.

    So here is the basic outline of the gift, and some suggestions about ways you might go about using it for maximum beneficial effect. The basic outline is that this phenomenon that is thought of by many as the “IQ” sort of aspect or characteristics of so-called “intelligence” is far far more than just a remarkably big snazzy and important technological marvel.

    Oh, no, no, no indeed.
    What the ‘IQ-Smartness’ aspect intelligence” actually is, in fact, is the bedrock architecture of the physical universe itself, and that includes every material and/or energetic process that operates within that Universe. God made that apparatus, and God keeps it going, but the machine itself (once it has been created as this one has been created) is just a machine and like any other machine it can be operated and controlled through physical processes.

    The key to managing those myriad processes is logical intelligence, and now that the mechanics of logical intelligence have been worked out (they are basically identical to the mechanics and procedures of language based communication) enough to build enormous electronic Artificial Intelligence systems on the grand scale there are those who have chosen to go all-in on carrying through in their attempt to control everything.

    It’s plain to see how they’re screwing everything up and are failing on a stupendous scale. The reason they’re failing is that the so-called logical intelligence devices that they are using (especially including their own literature, science books and living brains) are NOT actually intelligence as we think of it. Those devices (including language) are just ROUGH COPIES, crudely inadequate verbal explanations in monkey-talk trying to explain to each other what they’re actually living in and looking at

    The only real and true “intelligence” that there is or ever could be is the one that created this place in such a way that intelligence could ever even be thought of as a thing. Anyway, getting back to that freebie I’m giving you on my Birthday. If you want to see how intelligence works then examine how language works, and if you want to know how language works then examine how life works, and if you want to understand life then examine the world very very closely and figure out how physical reality is running, and if you really want to understand the physical sciences then you’re just going to have to talk to God about that because He is the ONLY one who knows.

    #236005
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “Unlike the AI photo above, I’m still eating $6 Porterhouse and driving $3 gas. And I’m in a high-cost area!”

    fiddle on, grasshopper..

    #236006
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “We’ve taken essentially NO losses. We probably lost 10,000 men under Obama’s tranny plan in the military, and only 1,000 men in an actual hot war. “

    this is perverse.

    do you have children?

    #236007
    zerosum
    Participant

    Couple of hours ago in Gaza — heavy strikes from Iranian missiles hit areas where Zionist forces are gathered inside and around Gaza.

    https://t.me/syriankhabar/53738

    Posted by: Framarz | Mar 24 2026 13:13 utc | 1025

    #236008
    zerosum
    Participant

    The green circle is where the ships have to pass through and pay $2 million (likely in Chinese currency?)

    Today the flow of traffic has begun. Iran is cashing in.

    https://t.me/myLordBebo/111211

    Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 24 2026 13:14 utc | 1028

    #236009
    John Day
    Participant

    @DBS: “Happy Birthday to You…” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhdOPhTHeoE

    I found out, or it was brought to me as a realization, that my Uncle Don was born on October 24, Black Thursday of 1929, and as a direct result traveled a whole lot and lived in tents a whole lot as a toddler and little boy, which he remembers fondly at 96. He remains an interesting and intellectual man, composing, and sometimes translating poetry from German and Old English, such as Beowulf.
    His health seems good. He is as old as his father lived to be, who was a veteran of both World Wars.

    #236010
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #236011
    John Day
    Participant

    @DBS, regarding Shire Birthday Present: I think you refer to something like this:
    The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory
    Book by Christopher Langan
    30 min video by Langhan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8XIC1v-6II
    Review: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43708933-the-cognitive-theoretic-model-of-the-universe
    PDF: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Cognitive-Theoretic-Model-of-the-Universe%3A-A-of-Langan/537ac9c6066f20039491a72b361a4009a3d5623f
    CTMU Wiki: https://ctmucommunity.org/wiki/Cognitive-Theoretic_Model_of_the_Universe

    #236012
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The world is God’s thought, logically and intelligently thinking itself. Now that you’re learning a lot more about how that is actually done why not give it a try?

    #236013
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Dr_D Are you sure that’s a real $6 Porterhouse, or is there a chance that you’re just in the Matrix?

    #236014
    zerosum
    Participant

    “Intelligence Without Biology. Life Without Biology ”

    The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory
    Book by Christopher Langan

    Project Hail Mary, a 2026 sci‑fi film adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel, which does explore non‑biological or radically non‑Earthlike intelligence.

    A major sci‑fi film released in March 2026, based on Andy Weir’s 2021 novel. It follows a lone astronaut trying to save Earth from a star‑dimming microbe and encountering an alien intelligence with biology completely unlike anything on Earth.

    #236015
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @JohnDay

    I’ve been aware and deeply respectful of Christopher Langan for about 1o years now but he’s one full order of magnitude above my pay grade in the mathematics and sheer brain power departments. I had to take a different approach that took about 5 times longer to arrive at similar conclusions. One benefit of the being the slow kid in class is that I’ve become a genuine whiz bang at ripping through remedial homework.

    #236016
    those darned kids
    Participant

    enjoy the ride, dbs, enjoy the ride.

    good thing the venutians haven’t put up a toll-both on earth’s orbit.

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